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Present morphodynamics models used by coastal engineers suffer from a lack of detail and accuracy when it comes to sand transport in the near-shore region, where waves break and run up and down the beach. The complex interactions between hydrodynamics and sediment transport processes under such non-uniform wave conditions, and effects of additional breaking-generated turbulence, are not well understood – and consequently, not properly accounted for in sand transport formulations.

My research focuses on the complex hydrodynamic and sediment transport processes, in order to assess and improve engineering-type sand transport formulations. I try to achieve this through controlled laboratory wave flume experiments that allow very detailed investigations of the physical processes driving sediment transport.

At present I am employed as a postdoctoral researcher within the EU-funded HydraLab+ infrastructure. Within this project I am involved in experimental work focusing on hydrodynamics under breaking waves and on graded sediment transport under non-breaking waves.